Francis Bacon

“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”

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

“Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.”

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”

“The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.”

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

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

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

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”

“Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”

“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”

“God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.”

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

“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”

“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”

“Opportunity makes a thief.”

“Friends are thieves of time.”