A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis BaconEnvy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis BaconThere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Francis BaconIt is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Francis Bacon