Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.