It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.