Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Blaise Pascal · Lettres Provinciales (1656–1657), no. 4

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal · The source reads: “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical.… Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Blaise Pascal · Pensées, 298

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Blaise Pascal · From the Pensées, on how small causes turn history.

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Charles Lamb

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

“Things are always at their best in their beginning.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”

“Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical.… Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.”

“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

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