Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.