Francis bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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