Francis Bacon — "The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of 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 most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in minds of some nobility."

"It is not possible to love and to be wise."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

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