Francis Bacon

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.

For too long I have silenced my heart, that now, when I give it the opportunity to speak, it no longer remembers its voice. Locked away, it forgot what it’s like to be free; to roam. Imprisoned within loneliness, I fear Stockholm syndrome has developed.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.