"What is worse, the Jews, in their synagogues, curse our Lord Jesus Christ and Mary His mother, and call her a whore, and Christ a mamzer [bastard], that is, a son of a whore."

"I confess that I am a man, and that I have erred."

"The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest."

"GOD OFTEN ACTS LIKE A MADMAN ... I look upon God no better than a scoundrel."

"The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship."