Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.