“Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.”

“Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.”

“If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.”

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”

“When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.”

“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”

“Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.”

“So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.”