Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.