Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

Riches are for spending.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

No one ever became great by imitation.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.