Francis Bacon

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

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.