I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

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