1. 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.”

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2. Francis Bacon - “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

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3. Francis Bacon - “Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”

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4. Francis Bacon - “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; And writing an exact man.”

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5. Francis Bacon - “He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of Virtue or Mischief.”

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6. Francis Bacon - “The world's a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span.”

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7. Francis Bacon - “Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”

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8. Francis Bacon - “All rising to great place is by a winding stair.”

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9. Francis Bacon - “Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

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10. Francis Bacon - “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.”

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11. Francis Bacon - “Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”

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12. Francis Bacon - “We cannot too often think, that there is a never sleeping eye that reads the heart, and registers our thoughts.”

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13. Francis Bacon - “Of great riches, there is no real use, except it be distribution; the rest is but conceit.”

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14. Francis Bacon - “Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, And seldom drive business home to the full period, But content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

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15. Francis Bacon - “He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.”

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16. Francis Bacon - “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.”

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17. Francis Bacon - “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic And rhetoric, able to contend.”

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18. Francis Bacon - “If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.”

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19. Francis Bacon - “Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.”

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20. Francis Bacon - “In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; But if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

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21. Francis Bacon - “In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.”

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22. Francis Bacon - “It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear: And yet that commonly is the case of kings.”

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23. 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.”

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24. Francis Bacon - “Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.”

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25. Francis Bacon - “Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”

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