A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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.

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.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.