Quotes By Francis Bacon

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Friends are thieves of time.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Knowledge is power.

By indignities men come to dignities.

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.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.