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

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

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

"Medicine causes illness, Mathematics melancholy, and Theology sinful people."

"First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of o…"