Francis Bacon

"Idleness is the mother of all vices."

"The greatest deception is deceiving oneself."

"Fear is the father of anger."

"A contemplative man is seldom miserable."

"God works in mysterious ways, but his work is always just."

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances."

"Time is the supreme judge of all disputes."

"Art is the imitation of nature in her manner of operation."

"The promise of yesterday may become the regret of tomorrow."

"Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not authority."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"A man is but the sum of his actions."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths."

"The best composition of peace is the conquest of vice."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelled, not swallowed."

"Nature is a perpetual worker; she is always busy and always making."

"The supreme satisfaction is to be called to the high council of one's nation."

"Beauty and goodness are often synonymous."

"To persist in the right is better than to prevail through wrong."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country produces."

"Words are the pictures of thoughts."

"The mind of man is the measure of the universe."

"Melancholy is the nurse of wisdom."

"Marriage is a state in which man loses his reason and woman loses her virtue."

"Sweet is the lore which nature brings."

"Seek ye first the good of the State, and all else shall follow."

"The more we know the more we recognize the vastness of our ignorance."

"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart."

"Affection blinds judgment."