Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.