"All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"I take all knowledge to be my province."
"For knowledge too is itself a power."
"Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man."
"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief."
"A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage."
"I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and..."
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
"Reading maketh a full man."
"There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth."