Francis Bacon Quotes
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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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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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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Great changes are easier than small ones.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
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It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.