Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. – Francis Bacon
Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus