“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”– Francis Bacon Related Quotes “Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”– Honore de Balzac “Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”– T. S. Eliot “God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.”– Steve Harvey