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

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

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.