There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.