Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. – Francis Bacon