Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

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

Slander is worse than cannibalism.