If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. - Blaise Pascal

La nature a des perfections pour montrer qu’elle est l’image de Dieu, et des défauts pour montrer qu’elle n’en est que l’image.

Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

One of the principal reasons that diverts those who are entering upon this knowledge so much from the true path which they should follow, is the fancy that they take at the outset that good things are inaccessible, giving them the name great, lofty, elevated, sublime. This destroys everything. I would call them low, common, familiar: these names suit it better; I hate such inflated expressions.