"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men."
"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison."
"Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested."
"Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man."
"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
"Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling."
"Houses are built to live in and not to look on."
"Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us."