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 done; not how eloquently we have spoken, but how well we have lived.

The chiefest remedy against indiscreet zeal of helping others, is so to attend to the good of our neighbors, that we hurt not ourselves: and so to have a care of the consciences of others, that we neglect not our own; but in assisting them, it is good to reserve so much time as is sufficient to own selves. conserve the heart in devotion and recollection. And this is, as St. Paul saith: "Ambulare in spiritu:" " To walk in spirit;" that is to say, that a man be more in God than in himself. Seeing, therefore, that the prime root of all our good upon this dependeth, we must strive that our prayer be so profound and long as may conserve the soul in devotion, which every short meditation is not able to do, but devout and long meditation.