"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is the gift of God."

"I am drinking beer from Namburg which tastes to me almost like the beer from Mansfeld which you praised to me. It agrees with me well and gives me about three bowel movements in three hours in the mor…"

"I am not afraid of a pope or a cardinal, but of a little bird that sings in the tree."

"They must be driven from our country."

"Safe-conduct on the highways should be abolished completely for the Jews."