Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's s… - Blaise Pascal

The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. [30] In short it is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God, that imagination loses itself in that thought.

God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will. Humble their pride.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.