We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people. - Blaise Pascal

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.