Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
Francis BaconThere was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
Francis BaconMahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
Francis Bacon