Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. – Francis Bacon
Mysteries are due to secrecy. – Francis Bacon
Opportunity makes a thief. – Francis Bacon
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. – Francis Bacon
I would live to study, and not study to live. – Francis Bacon
The place of justice is a hallowed place. – Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. – Francis Bacon
For knowledge itself is power. – Francis Bacon
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every mans judgment. – Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. – Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. – Francis Bacon
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. – Francis Bacon
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. – Francis Bacon
