Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.