Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

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

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

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.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.