Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

My dreams are all follies.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.