Of Studies - Summary (1) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring: for ornament is in dicourse and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business; for expert men can ex…

Of Truth - Summary (1) What is truth? said Jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of ph…

Of Revenge - Summary (1) "And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which thre is no …

Of Friendship Summary "And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgement: which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.&q…

Francis Bacon's Personality - Summary Bacon's essays hold a key to his characters and personality. Pope in his famestinate of Bacon's character says: "If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined. The wisest, brightest and meanest of mank…

Francis Bacon's Two Styles - Summary Introduction - Bacon's fame as a writer depends most of all on the fact that he is the father of modem English prose. He evolved a prose style that proved for the first time that English could also be used to expr…