In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- Saint Augustine - In Government
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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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Libraries are not made, they grow.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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Is this true or only clever?
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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That great dust-heap called 'history'.
- Augustine Birrell - In History
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine - In Love
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Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
- Norman Ralph Augustine - In Sports
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
- Saint Augustine - In Time
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine - In Words to the Wise
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