Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue.

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

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Friends are thieves of time.

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

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.