"An apt and true reply was given..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.”

“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”

“So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.”

“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”

“That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.”

“Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.”

“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.”

“Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.”

“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.”