Solemn Orations in Praise of the Divine Elector Princes of Saxony, Maurice and Christian I

...he who denies this denies that the sun shines at midday. And just as the seat and custody of truth is much firmer and more diligent in the pulpits of schools than in the platforms of temples, where most things are accommodated to the rude and simple auditor and are said more popularly and less accurately, and indeed must be said so, so also is Justice much more sincere and open in schools than in the forum, in courts, in halls, and in any society of men. For wherever you turn, you will discover both much sophistry and many so-called political schemes. Satan, the enemy of the entire human race, having these things well-perceived and known, scarcely lays snares for any assembly of men as he does for the scholastic one, nor does he have anything more in his prayers than to see the schools of Christians all destroyed and overturned. For this reason, he once stirred up his faithful instrument, Julian the Apostate, so that he might not only pursue the religion of Christians, condemned by his own judgment, with hostile hatred and brutality, but also that he might strive to abrogate, dissipate, and remove all their schools from the nature of things entirely. For he judged that, with schools removed, neither the Church nor the Republic of Christians would have any protection or aid a few years later. Therefore, we rightly consider any Christian Prince who favors schools, who sustains schools, and who desires schools to be preserved for posterity as a miracle and a semi-divine person. Since these things are so, auditors, you will all judge that no one can deserve more nobly from the human race, no one can offer more pleasing worship to God, than if he aids, adorns, and amplifies Schools. Excellently, therefore, as the great Luther mentions somewhere, the most praiseworthy Emperor Maximilian responded to his courtier nobles who despised doctors and the learned in his presence: I can make and create nobles and knights, but I cannot make doctors.