Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

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.

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?