It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. – Blaise Pascal
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. – Blaise Pascal
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson