Francis Bacon

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

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

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.