Francis Bacon

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

The worst men often give the best advice.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.