Francis Bacon Quotes
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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.
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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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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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Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
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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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Intermingle...jest with earnest.
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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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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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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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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
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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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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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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
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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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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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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
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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 lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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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.
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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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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
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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.