I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.