Francis Bacon

If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should
not have great account to read more

If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should
not have great account to render at my death.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the
elder, a part of experience. He that read more

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the
elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country
before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school,
and not to travel.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his read more

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God
by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.