Francis Bacon Quotes
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.
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God loveth the clean.
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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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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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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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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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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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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.