Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
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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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Science is but an image of the truth.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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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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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
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It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.