Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do…

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse…

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and…

God’s first creature, which was light…

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express…

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice…

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses…

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom…

Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels…

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of…

Wise men make more opportunities than they find…

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed…

Science is but an image of the truth…

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only…

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never…