Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.