If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon Quotes
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is bad supper.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.
It is scarcely possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.
They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
