Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. – Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau