Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business. – Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham