Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The disciplined are free.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The public must and will be served.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.