Fortune favours the audacious.

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

Of two evils choose the least.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

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.

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

Your library is your paradise.