Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

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