"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 greatest blessing of all is to have a wife who is pious, God-fearing, and domestic."

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."

"The commandments are not given inappropriately or pointlessly; but in order that through them the proud, blind man may learn the plague of his impotence, should he try to do as he is commanded."

"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."