Francis Bacon Quotes
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The great atheists, indeed are hypocrites; which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end.
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.
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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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Science is but an image of the truth.
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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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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Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
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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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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
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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 sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.