Quotes by Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.