Francis Bacon
  • Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

  • Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

  • 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.

  • Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

  • God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.