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.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will read more

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

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his read more

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely
anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to
go along with him.
- Francis Bacon,