Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. – Francis Bacon
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. – Francis Bacon
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. – Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the Today programme and item four on the news was: The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership. I lay there thinking thats interesting, then I realised it was me. – George Osborne