Sir Francis Bacon Quotes
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Knowledge and human power are synonyms.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Study serves for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice : which the more man's nature runs to the more ought low to weed it cut.
The fly sat upon the axle-tee to the chariot wheel, said, "What a dust do I raise !"
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is
increased with tales, so is the other.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.