The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
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.
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.