Francis Bacon

“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

“Acorns were good until bread was found.”

“Silence is the virtue of fools.”

“Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.”

“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

“Rebellions of the belly are the worst.”

“Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.”

“The place of justice is a hallowed place.”

“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”

“The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.”

“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.”

“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”

“Knowledge itself is power”

“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”

“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”

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

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”