People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis BaconThe person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
Francis BaconAntiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Francis Bacon