We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. – Blaise Pascal
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. – Blaise Pascal
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. – Blaise Pascal
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. – Blaise Pascal
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said Box about: twill come to my father anon. – John Aubrey