Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.