By indignities men come to dignities. – Francis Bacon
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities. – Francis Bacon
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon
They that deny a God destroy mans nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. – Francis Bacon