Quotes by : Sir Francis Bacon

For knowledge too is itself a power.

Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit....

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

I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance....

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

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about....

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

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....