Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconHe that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
Francis BaconThat conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.
Francis Bacon