Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!  -Blaise Pascal