Francis Bacon Good Quotations

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.

Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them.

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

In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place