Francis Bacon

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Knowledge itself is power. -Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.

One of the Seven was wont to say; "Laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."

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's first creature, which was light.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."