Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

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

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

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

Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.