There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Francis BaconFriendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
Francis BaconIt is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
Francis Bacon