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.

Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

A comprehended god is no god.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.