For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.