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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.