Francis Bacon

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The more you know, the less you need.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.