Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Francis BaconThe pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis BaconThe stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
Francis BaconIt would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
Francis Bacon