"If you wish to make a good prayer, go into your closet, lock the door, and throw the key out the window."

"What God wills is not right because he ought, or was bound, so to will; on the contrary, what takes place must be right, because he so wills it."

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

"Sometimes it is necessary to commit some sin out of hatred and contempt for the Devil."

"Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also; The body they may kill: God's truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever."