A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
Francis BaconDreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
Francis BaconGod has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis BaconThe human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so
Francis Bacon