Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

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

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

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.

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

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