Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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  You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

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

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  Love, and do what you will.

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  You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

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  I truly do not know whether the crawling with which man begins his first movement in life is not a kind of training for practical life.

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  Although death is the one and most certain fact in every man’s life, everyone writing an autobiography usually avoids beginning with that fact.

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