工人應謹記，其施工材料並非黃金而是泥土；也應嚴格自省，以免努力去除他人瑕疵時，卻忽略了自身的污點。

戒避自身的敗壞和紊亂， 同時避免刻意流露嬌柔和自大而假裝細心。 Suffer nothing dirty or disordered about you. At the same time be careful to avoid that affected carefulness that savors of effeminacy and conceit.

對我們所愛的要堅心定志，以英豪方式過倫理生活的人，愛之深，責之切。 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.

活於祝福中的人，必盡力專注於天主： 天主恆常臨於心中。 He lives the blessed life who, so far as possible, has his mind continually fixed on God and God in his mind.

準備於上主葡萄園工作的人應以謙虛及自貶面對艱辛；由於以謙遜為基礎，餘下的建築將順利完成。 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.

我若與世無爭，自然心安神怡。 忘記母語，轉戰他鄉，單槍匹馬上陣， 全城人會群起對峙，使我四面受敵。 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.

跟找你閒談的人講論死亡、審判及其他嚴肅的話題，引起他們的注意，即使他們裝聾，仍能利己益人，來者或是受益而去，或者以後不會再浪費你的時間。

太頻繁的懲罰表示管理欠耐心， 並非渴望紀律。 Too frequent punishment is a sign of a rule that is impatient rather than desirous of discipline.

除非愛惜藉祂寶血救贖的靈魂， 沒有人能自稱為基督的朋友。 No one should call himself a friend of Christ unless he cherishes those souls that Christ redeemed by the shedding of his Blood.

為服侍天主而獲得人的善意歸依，須為一切人成為一切，因近似的習性與興趣能賺得人心。 To gain men’s goodwill in God’s service we must become all things to all men; for men’s hearts are gained by nothing so much as by similarity of habits and interests.

唯一正確的野心就是愛天主， 並以更愛祂作為報酬。 There is but one right kind of ambition: to love God, and as the reward of loving him, to love him more.