True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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.

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

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

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.

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

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.