Quotes
Quotes - Bacon
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.
Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
States are great engines moving slowly.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.]
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
Knowledge is power.
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
