Francis Bacon

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

When a judge departs from the letter of the law he becomes a lawbreaker.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.