Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments…

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires…

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper…

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds…

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

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority…

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom…

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the…

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures…

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine…

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek…

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread…

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense…

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite…