Francis Bacon

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.