The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
From Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Law, without force, is impotent.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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