Francis Bacon

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.