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A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds
hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Topic: Medicine
Source: Essays--Of Regimen of Health
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a
mind.
Topic: Mind
Source: Essays--Of Atheism
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.
Topic: Mob
Source: None
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Topic: Money
Source: Of Sedition
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Topic: Nobility
Source: None
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as
men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought
they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a
help and ornament thereunto.
Topic: Occupations
Source: Maxims of the Law (preface)
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: None
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Topic: Parents
Source: None
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Topic: Perspective
Source: None
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Essays--Atheism
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Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None
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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.
Topic: Post
Source: Essays (93), (Arber's ed.)
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Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
Topic: Power
Source: None
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All colors will agree in the dark.
Topic: Prejudice
Source: None
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Topic: Profession
Source: None
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Topic: Prosperity
Source: None
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Of Fortune
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Of Seditions
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He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Of Seditions
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Topic: Providence
Source: None
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Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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A man is but what he knows.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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To know truly is to know by causes.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Constancy is the foundation of virtue.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how
otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
[Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot
capita in unum conspirare possint?]
Topic: Public
Source: 9, Laus, Existimatio
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely
anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to
go along with him.
- Francis Bacon,
Topic: Publishing
Source: An Advertisement Touching a Holy War--Epistle Dedicatory
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