"A simple layman armed with Scripture is to be believed above a pope or a cardinal without it."

"The world is like a drunken peasant. If you help him to mount on one side of his horse, he tumbles off on the other."

"Reason is the Devil's greatest whore."

"I'm like a ripe stool and the world's like a gigantic anus, and we're about to let go of each other."

"Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is ther…"