"After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers."

"The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and makes flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds away."

"He who lets himself be led by reason will never escape sin."

"I never learned to pray as I ought until I had been scourged by the devil."

"I am a peasant, a son of a peasant; my father, grandfather, all my ancestors were genuine peasants."