The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is free <br />From all dishonest deeds and thoughts of vanity: <br />The man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent, <br />Whom hopes cannot delude, nor fortune discontent; <br />That man needs neither towers nor armor for defense, <br />Nor secret vaults to fly from thunder's violence: <br />He only can behold with unaffrighted eyes <br />The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies; <br />Thus scorning all the care that fate or fortune brings, <br />He makes the heaven his book, his wisdom heavenly things; <br />Good thoughts his only friends, his wealth a well-spent age, <br />The earth his sober inn and quiet pilgrimage.<br /><br />Sir Francis Bacon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/guiltless-heart/
