Francis Bacon Quotes
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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?
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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.
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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.
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Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
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In charity there is no excess.
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.