Francis Bacon

A good conscience is a continual feast.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.