Francis Bacon — "Age doth not rectify, but rather confirm and harden, good or bad."

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."

"For the mind is not a tabula rasa upon which impressions are made, but rather a wax tablet upon which impressions are made, and which retains them for a time."