Francis Bacon

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man’s intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man’s self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody

Make a good use of the present.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.