When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.