Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.