Francis Bacon

“No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.”

“Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.”

“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”

“I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.”

“Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.”

“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”

“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”

“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.”

“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”

“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”

“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”

“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.”

“The place of justice is a hallowed place.”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”

“The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.”

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”

“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”

“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”