The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
Time takes away the grief of men.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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.
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.