You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.