Francis Bacon Quotes
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
