FRANCIS BACON QUOTES

A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others.

A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.

Age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.