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.

Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.

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

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

Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave....

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

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

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.