"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."

"I would have been a saint if I had remained in the monastery, but I was forced to become a devil."

"And should the peasants prevail (which God forbid!),... yet surely they who are found, sword in hand, shall perish in the wreck with clear consciences, leaving to the devil the kingdom of this world a…"

"He who would be a Christian must be a Jew."

"You owe nothing to God except faith and confession. In all other things He lets you do whatever you like. You may do as you please, without any danger of conscience whatsoever."