Francis Bacon

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

It is proved…that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.