The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.