"At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him."

"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. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees."

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

"It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening."