The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

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

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.