Francis Bacon

In charity there is no excess.

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

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.