"Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested."
- Francis Bacon
- Sir Francis Bacon
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly."
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."
"Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man."
"The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray."
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."
"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
"If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."