If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

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.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.