"'I heard about a certain brother who, if he saw that his [brethren's] cell was uncared for and disorderly when he went to consult any of the brethren, used to say to himself, ‘Happy indeed is this brother! How free from care about many things, or rather, about all earthly things, and he so fixes his whole mind on high so that he has no leisure to put his cell in order.’ And again, if he came on another and saw his cell in good order, clean, beautiful, he used to say to himself, ‘The soul of this brother must be as clean and well-kept as his cell, for the good state of his soul must be represented by the good state of his cell.” He never said about anyone, ‘This man is uncouth or that one is vainglorious’, but on account of his own habitual good disposition he took edification from each of them.'"