As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

My weight is my love.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.