Francis Bacon

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends

Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Francis Bacon

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man’s than of his own.

Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

God has two textbooks – Scripture and Creation – we would do well to listen to both.

Francis Bacon

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Francis Bacon

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Francis Bacon