Quotes By Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.