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

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

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.