"Sleep is a most excellent thing, for it makes us forget all the miseries of life."

"Their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, should be taken from them."

"I am a peasant, a son of a peasant; my father, grandfather, all my ancestors were genuine peasants."

"The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again."

"I am like a ripe nut; I am ready to fall."