Francis Bacon Quotes
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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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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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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
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Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases. Therefore measure not dispatch, by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of the business.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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States are great engines moving slowly.
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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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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.
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Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.
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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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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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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.