Francis Bacon

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

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker upon the planet. Then all things are at risk.

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

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

The people are to be taken in small doses.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.