A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.