Saint Augustine

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

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

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.