All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

With patience everything comes in due season.

The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

To live in God is death; to die in God is life.