Francis Bacon

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The greatest impediment to knowledge is the presumption of knowledge.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.

For as in a looking-glass, when the face is once gone, it is gone for ever; so in memory, when a thing is once forgotten, it is gone for ever.

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain.

The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools.

For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it.

It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue.

He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune.

The only way to conquer nature is to obey her.

To be ignorant of the causes of evils is to be deprived of the remedy.

Knowledge is power.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.

All colors will agree in the dark.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

He that hath no children, may be a said to be a kind of dead man.

It is not possible to love and to be wise.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.