Above all, love God with all your heart. Seek His honor more than the salvation of your soul. Attend diligently to purifying your mind with frequent confession. Lift your affections from earthly things. Receive communion often with devotion. Do not consider yourself better than any person, no matter how sinful, rather think of yourself as worse. Do not judge anyone's evil but always their good. Be in silence often. Do not delight in company or guests. Be as solitary as possible according to your state. Let gossip, slander, whispering, deceitful, and idle words be far from your ears, and even farther from your tongue. Pray often. Contemplate every hour. Strive to unite your whole family in true peace. Do not show pride in your words or actions. You should not be overly familiar with those who are subject to you, but rather treat them with a meek gravity. Give to all a good example of a holy life. Charitably correct the insolent. Encourage everyone to do good. Love modesty in your home, especially among the young girls. Show yourself to be a great enemy of dishonesty, harshly reprimanding any word, action, or dress that is less than honest. Do not be partial but distribute everything according to each person's worth and merit.
