Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

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.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.