Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

Fasting is a medicine.

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

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