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

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.

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

What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.

Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.