Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.