"If God has bestowed on us any excellent gift, we imagine it to be our own achievement; and we swell and even burst wi…"

"The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are …"

"I do not doubt that there has been some ignorance in their having reproved this mode of speech, — that the Virgin Mar…"

"A dog barks and stands at bay if he sees any one assault his master. I should be indeed remiss, if, seeing the truth …"

"Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the prin…"

"Where there is so much division and separation as we now see, it is indeed no easy matter to still the troubled water…"

"God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church."

"I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God ca…"

"Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from be…"

"Jules Bonnet, ed., Letters of John Calvin, 4 vols., (Lenox Hill), vol.II, 1973, pp. 376–377;[http://books.google.com/…"