EssayMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Francis Bacon1625★ 6.9
EssayGod Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.Francis Bacon1625★ 6.9
EssayHope is a good Break-fast, but it is a bad Supper.Francis BaconApophthegms New and Old · 1625★ 3.7
Age, that Age appeared 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 Bacon1625★ 3.6
EssayA little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.Francis Bacon1625★ 3.6
EssayProsperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue.Francis Bacon1625★ 3.6
EssayHe was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."Francis Bacon1625★ 3.6
EssayProsperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the Blessing of the New.Francis Bacon1625★ 3.6
EssayThey that deny a God destroy a man's nobility, for certainly man is of a kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.Francis Bacon1625★ 3.5
EssayThe desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.Francis BaconEssays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625★ 1.9
EssayIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.Francis Bacon1625★ 1.9
Essay · Travel writingWhen a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.Francis Bacon1625★ 1.9
EssayReading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.Francis Bacon1625★ 1.9
EssayRevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.Francis BaconEssays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625★ 1.9
Essay · SociologyHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.Francis BaconEssays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625★ 1.9
Essay · Travel writingTravel, 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.Francis Bacon1625★ 1.9
EssayProsperity is not without many Feares and Distastes; and Adversity is not without Comforts and Hopes.Francis BaconEssays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625★ 1.1
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