Francis Bacon

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

It always seems impossible until its done.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one’s ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they’ve made, and that’s OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t make them over and over again, you’re on the right path.

So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.