Francis Bacon

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.

It [friendship] redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely.

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.