Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon

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

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

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon