Francis Bacon Quotes, Apes Quotes, Habit Quotes

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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