Time takes away the grief of men.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

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.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly