We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Francis Bacon

By far the best proof is experience.

Francis Bacon

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.

Francis Bacon

God’s first creature, which was light.

Francis Bacon

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon