What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.