Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.