Sir Francis Bacon Quotes

Reading maketh a full man.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

This world's a bubble.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

For knowledge too is itself a power.

Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

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.

Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

I take all knowledge to be my province.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.

Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.