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Updated: May 16, 2025
Halsey dividing his time equally between Miriam in the house and me in the carriage, supplying me with violets and pensées one moment, and the next showing me the most tempting strawberries at the most provoking distance, assuring me they were exquisite. The individual to whom the carriage belonged, who had given up the reins to Mr.
"Les Pensées" could appear to me only as infinitely childish; the form is no doubt superb, but tiresome and sterile to one of such modern and exotic taste as myself. Still, I accept thankfully, in its sense of two hundred years, the compliment paid to Balzac; but I would add that personally he seems to me to have shown greater wings of mind than any artist that ever lived.
They are equally elevated in tone, and pervaded by the same subtle, penetrating, radiant mysticism, the same rapture of self-sacrificing aspiration, though lacking the glow of inward fire and exquisite charm of style which marked the author of the ‘Pensées.’ Noble-minded and full of genius, she was yet without his depth and power of feeling, or his skill and finish as an author.
The great orator is necessarily an artist as much as Pascal was in his Pensées; and his fame will rest perhaps more on his art than on his matter, since the art is inimitable and peculiar, while the matter is subject to the conditions of future, unknown, progressive knowledge.
'Why, Sir, the sense of ridicule is given us, and may be lawfully used . The authour of The Government of the Tongue would have us treat all men alike. In the interval between morning and evening service, he endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotional exercises; and as he has mentioned in his Prayers and Meditations , gave me 'Les Pensées de Paschal', that I might not interrupt him.
It is quite impossible to vindicate his consistency, and it is not in the least necessary to do this, as already explained; while we feel bound to maintain that his higher mood is his true mood, and that the Pascal of the ‘Pensées’—the veritable Pascal—is to be judged, not by his weakness but by his strength; by his moments of clear mental sanity and insight, and not by his moments of despair or of derisive mockery of all human philosophy.
There was a short pause. "I think," said Madame D'Anville, "that it is in those pensees which you admire so much in Rousseau, that our authors in general excel." "You are right," said Vincent, "and for this reason with you les gens de letters are always les gens du monde. Hence their quick perceptions are devoted to men as well as to books.
Excessively read in France, particularly during the eighteenth century, and active always in influencing the national conscience since the actual circulation of the "Essais de Morale" is said to have far exceeded that of the "Pensées" of Pascal Nicole has never, in the accepted phrase, "contrived to cross the Channel," and he is scarcely known in England.
And quietly heavily like an irrevocable sentence, there came, breathed to him as it were from that winter cold and loneliness, words that he had read an hour or two before, in the little red book beside his hand words in which the gayest of French poets has fixed, as though by accident, the most tragic of all human cries 'Quittez le long espoir, et les vastes pensées.
"The spirit of Jean Jacques Rousseau inhabits the moral world, but not that other which is above," M. Joubert has said in his Pensees. The weapons were insufficient and the champion was too feeble for the contest; the spirit of the moral world was vanquished as a foregone conclusion.
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