Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

We live among you, eat the same food, wear the same clothes . . . We sojourn with you in the world, renouncing neither forum nor market, nor bath, nor booth, nor workshop, nor inn . . . We till the ground with you, we join with you in business ventures.

There is strife between God's ways and human ways: damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.