Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. ”

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ”

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ”

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. ”

Knowledge is power. ”

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

By indignities men come to dignities. ”

Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ”

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ”

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. ”