Francis Bacon Quotes
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Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. 'Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.'
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Beware of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity inforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things, than one.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 'It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.'
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.
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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
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Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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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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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.