If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

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

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.