"With threefold horrible sins against God and men have these peasants loaded themselves, for which they have deserved a manifold death of body and soul."

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

"The greatest blessing of all is to have a good wife."

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

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