In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
Francis BaconSome artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
Francis BaconNothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Francis Bacon