Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.