And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.