Francis Bacon

"To spend too much time in studies is sloth."

"The mind works in mysterious ways."

"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue."

"All knowledge is founded in particulars."

"The strength of a man is in unity with others."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."

"In the examination of a suspect, patience will find out the truth."

"He that gives good advice builds with one hand, and heals with the other."

"The essence of freedom is the proper exercise of the will."

"Knowledge and power are one and the same."

"All discourse is in the head."

"Time operates on all things like a file, gradually wearing away falsity."

"The greatest trial is the uncertainty of the outcome."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."

"Knowledge itself is power, but the application of that knowledge is true power."

"The mind of man is more excellent than the nature of the body."

"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

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

"Silence is the virtue of fools."

"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune."

"Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability."

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall."

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

"Friendship is the greatest work of human nature."