Quotes by : Sir Francis Bacon

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.....

For knowledge too is itself a power.

I take all knowledge to be my province.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.

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

Reading maketh a full man.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises....