Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

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

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

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

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