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

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

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

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon

It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon