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?

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.