In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.