Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. – Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. – Francis Bacon
Riches are for spending. – Francis Bacon
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. – Francis Bacon
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. – Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon
A good conscience is a continual feast. – Francis Bacon
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. – Francis Bacon
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. – Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools. – Francis Bacon
All colors will agree in the dark. – Francis Bacon
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon
They that deny a God destroy mans nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. – Francis Bacon
It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. – Francis Bacon
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. – Francis Bacon
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. – Francis Bacon
