Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

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 the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.