Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to demons, thither let them continue to resort on the day of the Saint to whom the Church is dedicated, and slay their beasts, no longer as a sacrifice to demons, but for a social meal in honour of Him whom they now worship.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.