Sunday's Quote

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is one of those guys who some suspect of being the true author of Shakespeare's works. I don't put much stock in that theory, but he certainly wrote some great stuff under his own name, as in the following:

"The pleasure and delight of knowledge and
learning, it is far surpasseth all other in nature....
We see in all other pleasures there is satiety,
and after they are used their 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."