"In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"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."
"Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set."
"Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses."
"This world's a bubble."