Francis Bacon

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome seldom extinguished.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

It is impossible to love and be wise.