Francis Bacon Quotes
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle, if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.
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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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Boldness is a child of ignorance.
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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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Whatever you can, count.