If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.