Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Pure truth is for God alone.

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.