Francis Bacon Quotes, Nature Quotes, Air Quotes

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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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.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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