The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

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

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.