Happiness is never grand.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.