Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.