Sir Francis Bacon Quotes

This world's a bubble.
Sir Francis Bacon
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
Sir Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
Sir Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Sir Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
I take all knowledge to be my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
For knowledge too is itself a power.
Sir Francis Bacon
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Sir Francis Bacon
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Sir Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Sir Francis Bacon
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
Sir Francis Bacon
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Sir Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Sir Francis Bacon
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
Sir Francis Bacon
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
Sir Francis Bacon
Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon