Francis Bacon — "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"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."

"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."

"He that is a master of himself, is a master of the world."

"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time."