We either carry our audience with us or irritate them.

A collection of observations that pertain to writing and writers from Blaise Pascal’s Pensees:

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented, there is none to be more feared that THE THEATER.

It is not enough that a thing be beautiful; it must be suitable to the subject, and there must be in it nothing of excess or...