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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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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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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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
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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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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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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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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 has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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God loveth the clean.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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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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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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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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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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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.