If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.