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?

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.