认识天主的人知道举心向上时，不只是在仰观星空，甚至是在凝视一片草叶或任何最微小事物时也是如此。 He who knows God knows how to raise his mind immediately to God’s love, not only when he beholds the starry heavens, but even on considering a blade of grass, or the smallest things of any kind.

无论你何等贫穷，勿忘乐善好施，慷慨解囊， 使病患福利，一无所缺。 However great your poverty, spare no expense that nothing may be wanting for the welfare of the sick.

纵然事物具最佳本质，并非为人人有用；但仍应践行，在实际情况中，利己益人。 What is best in itself is not always most useful for everybody, but that should be done which in the actual circumstances is of most profit to each other.

谨防谴责任何人的行为，即使其行为貌似败坏，应考虑别人常出于忠诚及纯真的动机。 Beware of condemning any man’s action. Consider your neighbor’s intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance.

工人应谨记，其施工材料并非黄金而是泥土；也应严格自省，以免努力去除他人瑕疵时，却忽略了自身的污点。

戒避自身的败坏和紊乱， 同时避免刻意流露娇柔和自大而假装细心。 Suffer nothing dirty or disordered about you. At the same time be careful to avoid that affected carefulness that savors of effeminacy and conceit.

对我们所爱的要坚心定志，以英豪方式过伦理生活的人，爱之深，责之切。 As we hold those dearer whom we find immovable in firmness of heart and manly virtue, so shall we more severely chastise their smallest faults.

活于祝福中的人，必尽力专注于天主： 天主恒常临于心中。 He lives the blessed life who, so far as possible, has his mind continually fixed on God and God in his mind.

准备于上主葡萄园工作的人应以谦虚及自贬面对艰辛；由于以谦逊为基础，余下的建筑将顺利完成。 The man who is going forth to labor in the Lord’s vineyard should direct his steps by humility and self-contempt toward what is difficult and hard; for the rest of the building will be safely fixed if it is based on humility for its foundation.

我若与世无争，自然心安神怡。 忘记母语，转战他乡，单枪匹马上阵， 全城人会群起对峙，使我四面受敌。 I am at wondrous peace with the world so long as I do not make war on it, forgetting the tongue of my native land: but let me go forth to the camp, and you will see the whole city rise up against me while I fight on every side.