Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.