As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.