Francis Bacon Quotes, Library Quotes, Shrines Quotes

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Always let losers have their words.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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