Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
Francis BaconThe master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Francis BaconIt is true, that a little philosophy inclineth manโs mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth menโs minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Francis Bacon