Quotes
Quotes - Bacon
Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set.
God Almighty first planted a garden.
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Knowledge is power.--Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
States as great engines move slowly.
The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
What then remains but that we still should cry
For being born, and, being born, to die?
