"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."

"I am drinking beer from Namburg which tastes to me almost like the beer from Mansfeld which you praised to me. It agrees with me well and gives me about three bowel movements in three hours in the mor…"

"If you wish to make a good prayer, go into your closet, lock the door, and throw the key out the window."

"We should not break our heads at work and injure our bodies … I myself used to do such things, and I have racked my brains because I still have not overcome the bad habit of overworking. Nor shall I o…"

"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."