I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon - In Old Age
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon - In On Change
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon - In On Change
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon - In Mortality
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon - In Humor
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon - In Imagination
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon - In Nature
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Francis Bacon - In Nature
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- Francis Bacon - In Science
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon - In Words to the Wise
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