The tone of voice influences the wisest of us and alters the force of a speech or a poem. - Blaise Pascal

The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.

Attachment to the same thought wearies and destroys the mind of man. Hence for the solidity and permanence of the pleasure of love, it is sometimes necessary not to know that we love; and this is not to be guilty of an infidelity, for we do not therefore love another; it is to regain strength in order to love the better. This happens without our thinking of it; the mind is borne hither of itself; nature wills it, commands it. It must however be confessed that this is a miserable consequence of human weakness, and that we should be happier of we were not forced to change of thought; but there is no remedy.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.