"The world is satisfied with words. Few..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.”

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.”

“All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.”

“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”

“Words alone are certain good.”

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

“What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying”

“Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.”

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".”