Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.