Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.