“ Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ”
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
~ Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
