So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.