"If I am given a formula, and..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.”

“Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.”

“What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.”

“Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.”

“Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.”

“The more you know, the less sure you are.”

“I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.”

“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.”

“All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.”