Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

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.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.