Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Faith is the yes of the heart.

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.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.