To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

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.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

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

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.