Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. – Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – 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
This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. – Francis Bacon