Francis Bacon

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

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)

The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

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

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

Whatever you have spend less.

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.