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

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.