No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

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