If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there |
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old |
In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. |
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits |
It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoices or laughest from the bottom of thy heart |
It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search into the hidden mysteries of God |
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth |
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. |
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. |
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. |
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more. |
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful |
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children |
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God |
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. |