If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.

Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

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

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

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.

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.