Francis Bacon

“Acorns were good until bread was found.”

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

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

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

“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”

“God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.”

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

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

“Knowledge is power.”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”

“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”

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