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

Your library is your paradise.

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

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

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.

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