Francis Bacon
  • Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  • I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  • Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

  • Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

  • Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.