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Francis Bacon Quotes (627 quotes)

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”
―Francis Bacon

“The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”
―Francis Bacon

“The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.”
―Francis Bacon

“Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
―Francis Bacon

“The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love.”
―Francis Bacon

“Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.”
―Francis Bacon

“Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.”
―Francis Bacon

“Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.”
―Francis Bacon

“Ambition is like choler, which is a humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped, but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh fiery, and thereby malign and venomous.”
―Francis Bacon

“A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.”
―Francis Bacon

Source/Notes:
The Works, with Several Additional Pieces Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which Ist Prefixed a New Life of the Author by Mr. Mallet (1711 edition)

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
―Francis Bacon

“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.”
―Francis Bacon

Source/Notes:
The works of Francis Bacon: baron of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, and lord high chancellor of England (1819 edition)

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Born: January 22, 1561

Died: April 9, 1626 (aged 65)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Philosopher

Bio: Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

British politicians

Born on January 22

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