There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.