Francis Bacon

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions…