Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
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Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
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There is nothing as strong as tenderness,
And nothing as tender as true strength.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.
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