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 generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.