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Quotes from Francis Bacon

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".
~ Francis Bacon
... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
~ Francis Bacon
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
~ Francis Bacon
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
~ 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.
~ Francis Bacon
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
~ Francis Bacon
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
~ Francis Bacon
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
~ Francis Bacon
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
~ Francis Bacon
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
~ Francis Bacon
In charity there is no excess.
~ Francis Bacon
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
~ Francis Bacon
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
~ Francis Bacon
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
~ Francis Bacon
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
~ Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~ Francis Bacon
Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
~ Francis Bacon
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
~ Francis Bacon
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
~ Francis Bacon
Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
~ Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
~ Francis Bacon
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest
~ Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
~ Francis Bacon