Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

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

Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.