"In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"I would live to study not study to live."
- Francis Bacon
"She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers."
- Martha Bacon
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly."
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend."
"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other."
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
"The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before."