Francis Bacon Doth Quotations

This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications

Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.