Quotes from Francis Bacon, Sr.

Time is the measure of business.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

Great hypocrite are the real atheists

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.