Francis Bacon — "He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are im…"

"For as in a looking-glass, when the face is once gone, it is gone for ever; so in memory, when a thing is once forgotten, it is gone for ever."

"For good and evil, there is no place for neutrality."

"It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue."

"The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curio…"

"The method of discovery and proof, whether by the senses or by the mind, is one and the same; and it is only by a right method of discovery that we can hope for a right method of proof."