In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
Francis BaconPraise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis BaconFor cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Francis BaconThe desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon