3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon 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.
