Desiderius Erasmus

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!