"Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses."
"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
- Francis Bacon
"This world's a bubble."
"The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue."
"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."