Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

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

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

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

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