Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. – Francis Bacon
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. – Francis Bacon
I doe hold it, in the Royall ordering of Gardens, there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally Things of Beautie, may in then in Season. – Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon
For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon
