Francis Bacon

doth bring lies in favor;

it is not only the difficulty and labor, which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural, though corrupt love, of the lie itself.

Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.

this same truth, is a naked, and open day-light

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day;

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth,

which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below;

where it must first fill a pool.