Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

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.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

To read without writing is to sleep.

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

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

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.