Sir Francis Bacon Quotes
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.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! "
All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great.
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?