Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
