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

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

Francis Bacon

"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."

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon