Francis Bacon
  • People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

  • A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

  • It is impossible to love and to be wise.

  • Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

  • By indignities men come to dignities.