Quotes by Francis Bacon

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"It is impossible to love and be wise."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. "

"Silence is the virtue of fools."

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."