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

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Fortune favors the audacious.

There is no joy in possession without sharing.