Quotes 61 till 80 of 197.
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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If money be not they 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.
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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
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