Francis Bacon Much Quotations

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.