若把精力放于祈祷，而非控制喜好，此乃错误之举。 It is a mistake to spend on prayer the efforts that ought to be directed to getting the affections under control.

邪恶会栖身于宁静及祥和笼罩的家居，真的令人费解。 In houses over which a calm and undisturbed tranquility is always brooding, it will go hard but some evils will make their nest.

要有用于人，先从自己费苦心开始，燃点别人的火，应先在家中点燃。

因病放下工作，要以平静及忍耐，接受日后能追上进度而感满足， 以免积劳成疾。

若有人提出请求，给予反会做成伤害，即使拒绝，仍要小心挽留请求者的友谊。

在某些事情上，沉默胜过言语。真理为自身辩护时，毋需修辞技巧帮助。

当万事如意时，勿以为能持续地鸿运当头，反应为此警戒怵惕。 When everything goes as you want it to, put no trust in the continuance of your good fortune, but fear all the more.

较天主美好的各种创造，监狱、脚镣和耻辱等根本不算什么。 All the good things God has created, weighed against prison, fetters, and disgrace, should count for nothing at all.

要所有人走同一条路是危险的：把自己和别人比较更坏。 It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

当魔鬼以某种痛苦攻击及骚扰人时，会选择在夜间行事。 When the devil wants to attack and harass a man with peculiar bitterness, he prefers to work at night.

长远而言，真理战无不胜；纵然受到攻击，无法克胜真理。 Nothing resists the truth for long: it may be assailed, but never overcome.