What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Even victors are by victories undone.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.