Francis Bacon Quotes
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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
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Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
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Art is man added to Nature.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.
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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.