Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?