Francis Bacon Quotes
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
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Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.
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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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All will come out in the washing.
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.