Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.