Quotes by : Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed....

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do....

But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when....

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.