Francis Bacon Best Quotations

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

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.