Francis Bacon — "All colors will agree in the dark."

"In order to stir up others, I have myself been obliged to become a wanderer."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all the…"

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."

"The root of all evil is the love of money."