"We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

The Hand that made us is divine.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.