Francis Bacon

"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

"Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror."

"There is no great and no small to the Soul that maketh all."

"He who commands the sea has command of everything."

"Man can be cured of almost anything except the desire to cure other people."

"The most powerful virtue is temperance."

"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit is rarely found."

"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New."

"Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only a method of avoiding the consequences of vice."

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

"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches."

"It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tost upon the sea."

"Knowledge is itself power."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not."

"The mind is the man."

"A man who has never made a mistake will never try anything new."

"He that gives fast holds his hand open."

"The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."

"No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul."

"The fault is great to be a dreamer of dreams and not to go."

"There is a superstition in avoiding superstition."

"Revenge triumphs over death."

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

"The human understanding is moved by those things which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly."