Francis Bacon Quotes
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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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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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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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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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, 'Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone'.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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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 man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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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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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.