Francis Bacon — "It is as natural to die as to be born."

"To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child."

"The honest and straightforward course is, in the long run, the most profitable."

"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."

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