Francis Bacon

"Discourse is the outward form of thinking."

"All things are ready if our minds be so."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"A man's nature is to observe."

"The entrance into science is through the natural history of objects."

"Time is the greatest innovator."

"The charm of knowledge is taking to flight."

"Integrity is the highest business."

"Wars are now principally decided by money."

"The contemplative life is the happy life."

"Self-denial is not the abnegation of the self but its fullest realization."

"Use and habit even with inanimate things produces effects."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered."

"The love of one's country is a holy thing."

"Counsel should take salaries, but judgment goes with honors."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

"What is true by courtesy is false by courtesy."

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

"Histories make men wise."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Nature is the art of God."

"The present age is not a time to discuss the past."

"There is no king who has not a hundred or a thousand rebels."

"Craftiness and credulity are both weak."

"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."

"The study of nature is the source of all true philosophy."

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

"The universe itself is a miracle."

"Dumb men will speak when the wise hold their peace."

"The fruit of long experience is knowledge."