Francis Bacon Quotes
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
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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.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
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The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.