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

Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Of the truths within our reach... the mind and the heart are as doors by which they are received into the soul, but... few enter by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds by the rash caprices of the will, without the council of reason.