Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

— Francis Bacon

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

— Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

— Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

— Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures at first are L-shaped so are all innovations which are the births of time.

— Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

— Francis Bacon

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

— Francis Bacon

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erected an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore, atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and Bridget in a new primum mobile, that ravished all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

— Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

— Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

— Francis Bacon