Francis Bacon — "The greatest advantage of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and unruffled mirror, but is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not with judgment and industry regulated…"

"The Idols of the Theatre are not innate, nor do they steal into the understanding from the secret channels of the mind, but are plainly impressed and received from the various dogmas of philosophies, …"

"It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt."

"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and better discovereth God's favour."

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