Francis Bacon

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment.

Wake up, you’ve been sleeping. Take up your bed and walk. Stop blaming other people. Oh, it’s nobody else’s fault.

The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Property is organized robbery.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.