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Francis Bacon Quotes about Inspiration

In charity there is no excess.

In charity there is no excess.

Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw (1733). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and made English from the Originals, with occasional notes, To explain what is obscure; and show how far the several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of all the Parts of Knowledge, have been executed to the Present Time”, p.91

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1871). “A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon”, p.21