Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

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

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.