Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

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

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.