People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read."

Francis Bacon

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

Francis Bacon

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

Francis Bacon

"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."

Francis Bacon

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

Francis Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Francis Bacon