"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 …"

"Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal with them with utmost severity, as Moses did in the wilderness, when he slew three thousand... for if we …"

"The hair is the finest ornament a woman has. If she be a virgin, let her wear it loose; if married, let her wear it up."

"I would not have believed salvation could be so easy."

"I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?'"