Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

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

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.

Eagles don't catch flies.

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

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

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