So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.