"I have so much to do today that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."

"The very devil himself would thank you for such an event, and no one but the miserable devil and his devilish scum."

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

"The book of Esther I toss into the Elbe. I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist, for it Judaizes too much and has in it a great deal of heathenish foolishness."

"To be sure, I would not execute a Jew; I would not even allow him to be a farmer, but I would drive him out of the country."