therefore they are often deceived, and reap little, or no fruit. Oh, if men bestowed as much labor in the rooting out of vices and planting of virtues as they do in proposing questions, there would neither be such great evils and slanders in the world, nor so much looseness among us. Truly, when the day of judgment comes, we will not be examined as to what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how we have lived.
Where are now all those masters and doctors with whom you were well acquainted while they lived and flourished in learning? Now others possess their livings, and perhaps scarcely ever think of them. In their lifetime they seemed to be somewhat, but now they are not spoken of. How quickly the glory of the world passes away.!† Oh, that their lives had been answerable to their learning! Then had their study and reading been to good purpose. How many perish by reasons of vain learning,† in this world, who take little care of the serving of God!  And because they rather choose to be great than humble, they become lost in their own imaginations.†
He is truly great, who is great in love.  He is truly great who is little in himself, and who makes no account of any height of honor.† He is truly
