Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.
Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.