"Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil's appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who should be trodden unde…"

"Be a sinner and SIN BOLDLY, but believe more boldly still."

"It is enough to know simply that there is a certain inscrutable will in God, and as to what, why, and how far it wills, that is something we have no right whatever to inquire into, hanker after, care …"

"I am not afraid of a pope or a cardinal, but of a little bird that sings in the tree."

"I never learned anything by being told, but only by doing."