I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
I build only living stones--men.
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
