Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.Francis Bacon
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.Francis Bacon
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.Francis Bacon
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.Fyodor Dostoevsky
