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• Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world
  as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad....
• What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
• Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  -- Francis Bacon, English philosopher (1561-1626)...
• Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
  -- William Browne (1590-1645) -- Britannia's Pastorals, Book i, Song 2...
• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
  -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) Hieroglyphics of the Life of Ma...