Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Exploring the mysteries of myself and the world. Sensual, powerful, wise… on my path…

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.