Francis Bacon Quotes
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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
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Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.
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The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it , as any foreing parts.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.