Francis Bacon, Sr.
Found 88 thoughts of Francis Bacon, Sr.
The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Men in great place are thrice servants, - servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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, Sr.
Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
