"The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue."
- Francis Bacon
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
"The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude."
"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor."
"Dancing is the body made poetic."
- Ernst Bacon
"The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men."
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
"As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time."
"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison."