"Houses are built to live in and not to look on."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
- Francis Bacon
"Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us."
"All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."
"Knowledge is power."
"I take all knowledge to be my province."
"For knowledge too is itself a power."
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out."
"Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man."
"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."