Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

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

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

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

The desire to write grows with writing.