Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.