Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

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

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.