Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.