Francis Bacon

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

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

"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."

"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."

"Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread."

"The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room."

"REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

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

"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."