When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

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.