Quotes by Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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.

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

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and to the next age.

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

For knowledge, too, itself is power.
(Col. 'Knowledge is power.')

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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

Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.