Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

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

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

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.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.