"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Churchill, Winston | Courage | 3 bookmarks

"Time is the measure of business."

Bacon, Francis | Time and Time Management | 1 bookmarks

"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."

Bacon, Francis | Change | 1 bookmarks

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

Bacon, Francis | Books - Reading | 3 bookmarks

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

Bacon, Francis | Beauty | 1 bookmarks

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

Bacon, Francis | Beauty | 5 bookmarks

"I would live to study, and not study to live."

Bacon, Francis | Studying | 1 bookmarks

"The best armor is to keep out of gunshot."

Bacon, Francis | Strategies | 1 bookmarks

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis | Solitude | 6 bookmarks

"Silence is the virtue of fools."

Bacon, Francis | Silence | 2 bookmarks