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.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.