[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

Woman is the root of all evil.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

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

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.