Quotes by Sir Francis Bacon

Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.

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.

Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

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

This worlds a bubble.