Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.