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

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.