Francis Bacon

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Francis Bacon

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Francis Bacon

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought out.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

I believe in deeply ordered chaos.

Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Francis Bacon