We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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

Francis Bacon

"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

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

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

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

Francis Bacon

"REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

Francis Bacon