Francis Bacon

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

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ”

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

Friends are thieves of time. ”

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ”

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ”

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ”

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. ”