When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.