Too much consulting confounds. [ Proverb ]

The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all. [ Gay ]

Fortune confounds the wise.
And when they least expect it turns the dice. [ Dryden ]

Love the sense of right and wrong confounds;
Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. [ John Dryden ]

Nothing so much contents us as that which confounds us. [ Goldsmith ]

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. [ Madame de Stael ]

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. [ Joubert ]