And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.