"Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden...." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.”

“Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.”

“Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.”

“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”

“The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds”

“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?”

“Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.”

“Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.”

“Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.”