As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a mans self. – Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. – Francis Bacon