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• In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world
  as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad....
• We take cunning for a sinister and crooked wisdom, and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty but in point of ability.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pa
  which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him....
• It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic.
  A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health....
• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
• Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Fortune...
• A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• My Lord, I have a cunning plan..