Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting th... - Francis Bacon

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider."

"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"

"the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."