“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.Francis Bacon
“Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.Francis Bacon
“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Francis Bacon
“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.Francis Bacon