It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis BaconBecause the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
Francis BaconI confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Francis Bacon