The glory of good men is in their own consciences, not in the mouths of others.
The joy of the just is from God, and in God: and they rejoice in the truth.
He that desires true and everlasting glory, values not that which is temporal.
And he that seeks after temporal glory, or does not heartily despise it, shews himself to have little love for that which is heavenly.
That man has great tranquillity of heart, who neither cares for praises nor dispraises.
3. He will easily be content, and in peace, whose conscience is clean.
Thou art not more holy, if thou art praised: nor any thing the worse, if thou art dispraised.
What thou art, that thou art: nor canst thou be said to be greater than God sees thee to be.
If thou considerest well what thou art within thyself, thou wilt not care what men say of thee.