...be More Guided By Hope Than Fear.

The Affairs Of This World Are So Shifting And Depend On So Many Accidents, That It Is Hard To Form Any Judgment Concerning The Future; Nay, We See From Experience That The Forecasts Even Of The Wise Almost Always Turn Out False.

Pay No Heed To Those Who Tell You That They Have Relinquished Place And Power Of Their Own Accord, And From Their Love Of Quiet. For Almost Always They Have Been Brought To This Retirement By Their Insufficiency And Against Their Will.

There Is Nothing So Fleeting As The Memory Of Benefits Received.

Keep Your Eye Fixed Not So Much On What They [people] Ought In Reason To Do, As On What They Are Likely To Do Based On Their Disposition And Habits.

I Know No Man Who Feels Deeper Disgust Than I Do At The Ambition, Avarice, And Profligacy Of The Priesthood, As Well Because Every One Of These Vices Is Odious In Itself, As Because Each Of Them Separately And All Of Them Together Are Utterly Abhorrent In Men Making Profession Of A Life Dedicated To God.