"What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called 'liberal arts' in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I c…"

"Even in those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression; that is, who had not yet sinned of their own individual will, as Adam did, but had drawn from him original sin."

"He who is not jealous is not in love."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

"Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord."