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Great Quotes of Francis Bacon
** "When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires." - Francis Bacon.
** "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - Francis Bacon.
** "Let the mind be enlarged to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind" - Francis Bacon.
** "God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation." - 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." - Francis Bacon.
** "It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself." - Francis Bacon.
** "I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision." - Francis Bacon.
** "Tunes and airs have in themselves some affinity with the affections." - Francis Bacon.
** "Nay, number itself in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for as Virgil saith it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be." - Francis Bacon, 'Essays Or Counsels Civil And Moral'.
** "Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite." - Francis Bacon.