Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

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

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?