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.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

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

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

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.