555 Quotations with Francis.
- 461. Francis Bacon: All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

- 462. Francis Bacon: Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns thing ...

- 463. Francis Bacon: Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

- 464. Francis Bacon: I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcor ...

- 465. Francis Bacon: If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

- 466. Francis Bacon: If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-bor ...

- 467. Francis Bacon: Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of hu ...

- 468. Francis Bacon: In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he ...

- 469. Francis Bacon: Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd i ...

- 470. Francis Bacon: Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

- 471. Francis Bacon: Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the ch ...

- 472. Francis Bacon: The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when ...

- 473. Francis Bacon: The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small s ...

- 474. Francis Bacon: There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation wh ...

- 475. Francis Bacon: Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for thoug ...

- 476. Francis Bacon: This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for ...

- 477. Francis Bacon: Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of exp ...

- 478. Francis Bacon: Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an e ...

- 479. Francis Bacon: When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forg ...

- 480. Francis Bacon: With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to b ...

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