"The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and makes flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds away."

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

"The world is a great privy and I am a stool."

"You owe nothing to God except faith and confession. In all other things He lets you do whatever you like. You may do as you please, without any danger of conscience whatsoever."

"Drinking and eating are the highest pleasures."