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Famous Francis Bacon Quotes
“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.”
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.”
“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
“The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.”
“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.”
“God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.”
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.”
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”
“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.”
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
“Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”