Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
FRANCIS BACONBegin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
FRANCIS BACONChampagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
FRANCIS BACONBooks must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACONReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
FRANCIS BACONIt is impossible to love and be wise.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACONWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACONThere are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
FRANCIS BACONMoney is a great servant but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
FRANCIS BACONA man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONIn order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACONHistories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACONNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
FRANCIS BACONWonder is the seed of knowledge.
FRANCIS BACON