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.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.