If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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.

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.