"If they can bear to live among us Christians and Jews, then they should be forced to work like women in childbirth."

"The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees."

"The pope, a nemesis, was his 'dearest little ass-pope.'"

"I would rather have my tongue cut out than retract a single syllable."

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess."