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.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

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