By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he is disposed to make that use of her that nature designed her for