Mahomet 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 BaconBut the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Francis BaconIt is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
Francis Bacon