Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.