Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Francis Bacon

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Francis Bacon

We think according to nature, and speak according to rule; but we act according to custom.

Francis Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Francis Bacon

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Francis Bacon

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

Francis Bacon

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Francis Bacon