In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.