Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.