Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

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

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.