Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil.