Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. – Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. – Francis Bacon
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. – Francis Bacon
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business. – Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. – Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon
The worst men often give the best advice. – Francis Bacon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. – Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. – Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. – Francis Bacon
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. – Francis Bacon
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. – Francis Bacon
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. – Francis Bacon
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. – Francis Bacon
