Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?