Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I have had has caus… - Blaise Pascal

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Jesus Christ typified by Joseph, the beloved of his father, sent by his father to see his brethren, etc., innocent, sold by his brethren for twenty pieces of silver, and thereby becoming their lord, their saviour, the saviour of strangers, and the saviour of the world; which had not been but for their plot to destroy him, their sale and their rejection of him.

In prison Joseph innocent between two criminals; Jesus Christ on the cross between two thieves. Joseph foretells freedom to the one, and death to the other, from the same omens. Jesus Christ saves the elect, and condemns the outcast for the same sins. Joseph foretells only; Jesus Christ acts. Joseph asks him who will be saved to remember him, when he comes into his glory; and he whom Jesus Christ saves asks that He will remember him, when He comes into His kingdom.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.