Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Quote by Francis Bacon

Topics: Witty Quotes

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground

Opportunity makes a thief.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot...

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot...

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and...

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and...

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it...

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it...

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the...

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the...

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of...

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of...

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds...

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds...

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages...

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages...

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck...

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck...

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.