Francis Bacon Quotes
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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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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God loveth the clean.
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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
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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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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.