Sir Francis Bacon Quotes

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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

Good fame is like fire: when you have kindled it you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one... The more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

God's first creature was light.

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroic virtue.