If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
Francis BaconIt was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
Francis BaconMen seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
Francis BaconNor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.
Francis Bacon