The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
Francis BaconFor friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis BaconOf great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Francis BaconThe human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so
Francis Bacon