Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.