Francis Bacon Quotes
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
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What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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God loveth the clean.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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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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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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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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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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Above all, every relation must be considered as suspicious, which depends in any degree upon religion, as the prodigies of Livy: And no less so, everything that is to be found in the writers of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors, who seem, all of them, to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.