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.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

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.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

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.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

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