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.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

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

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.