For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

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.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.