"Having children is the only worthy fruit of sexual intercourse."

"The woman herself alone is not the image of God; whereas the man alone is the image of God as fully and completely as when the woman is joined with him."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

"I know nothing which brings the manly mind down from the heights more than a woman's caresses and that joining of bodies without which one cannot have a wife."

"The human nature, which first existed, is praised by these men as being so far less tainted with evil manners?"