A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Haste is of the Devil.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

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.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

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

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.