"The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of n…"

"The less you say, the more you are listened to."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

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

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."