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've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.