Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

"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

"The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room."

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

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

Francis Bacon

"Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread."

Francis Bacon

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

Francis Bacon