Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis BaconKnowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Francis BaconThe human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.
Francis BaconMen are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
Francis Bacon