Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.