He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
To know truly is to know by causes.
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
States are great engines moving slowly.
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.