“A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.”

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.

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.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

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

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Haste is of the Devil.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.

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.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

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

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Man cannot live by coffee alone, but he will give it a damn good try.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Music is the vehicle of man’s life.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.