Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes…

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion…

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man…

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not…

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy…

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

Knowledge is power…

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to…

Acorns were good until bread was found…

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good…

It is impossible to love and to be wise…

By indignities men come to dignities…

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural…

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul…

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green…