Francis Bacon — "The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel."

"The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the body; it sees all things else, but cannot see itself."

"The more you know, the less you need."

"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."

"The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."

"For as the eye of the mind, through the too great subtilty of the object, may be dulled and not able to perceive it, so through the too great subtilty of the medium it may be deceived and not able to …"