Francis Bacon

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

All those moments are alive in us today. We may not visit them anymore, very often, but we carry them in our DNA, our blood, our bones; informing the breadth and beauty of who we now are; our lesson to be lived.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; the flowering branches are; some long, some short.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.