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.

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.

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

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

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

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.