Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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.
To read without writing is to sleep.
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.