Francis Bacon

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Francis Bacon

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Francis Bacon

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

Francis Bacon

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Francis Bacon

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Francis Bacon

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Francis Bacon

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon