The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

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