Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

Eagles don't catch flies.

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

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

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