When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Woman is the root of all evil.

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

The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.