In charity there is no excess.
Quotes by Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you loose your way.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
If we begin with certainties we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient with them, we shall end with certainties.









