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Quotes from Francis Bacon

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
~ Francis Bacon
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
~ Francis Bacon
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
~ Francis Bacon
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
~ Francis Bacon
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
~ Francis Bacon
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
~ Francis Bacon
Riches are for spending.
~ Francis Bacon
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
~ Francis Bacon
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
~ Francis Bacon
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
~ Francis Bacon
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
~ Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
~ Francis Bacon
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
~ Francis Bacon
Art is man added to Nature.
~ Francis Bacon
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
~ Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
~ Francis Bacon
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
~ Francis Bacon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
~ Francis Bacon
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
~ Francis Bacon
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
~ Francis Bacon
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
~ Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
~ Francis Bacon
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
~ Francis Bacon
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
~ Francis Bacon