If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Francis BaconLukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
Francis BaconIn revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Francis Bacon