He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

The Devil invented gambling.

Love God, then do what you will.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Whoever possesses God is happy.

I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

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?