Monday Pearls of Wisdom

Today we hear from the eminent British philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626), helping to set the stage for the Enlightenment of the next century:

"The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning,
it far surpasseth all other in nature....
We see in all other pleasures there is satiety,
and after they are used there verdure departeth;
which showeth well they be but the deceits of pleasure,
and not pleasure: and that it was the novelty
that pleasured, not the quality."