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Francis Bacon Quotes

English - Philosopher | January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

God Solitude Beast Wild Either

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Man World Strangers Citizen Gracious

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

Man Revenge Enemy Over Superior He

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Men Man Religion Mind Philosophy

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Nature Justice Man Law Revenge Kind

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Education Experience Travel Elder

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Sea Imagination Think Nothing Land

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Moment Thoughts Down Write Come

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Happiness Wisdom Fool Man Difference

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Experience Plants Too Much Need Give

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Women Age Men Young Old Middle

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