Francis Bacon Quotes
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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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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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
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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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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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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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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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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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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.
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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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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.