The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing. - Blaise Pascal

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.

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.