Quotes by : Sir Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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

I take all knowledge to be my province.

Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.

Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

Reading maketh a full man.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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