C.M. Bacon Quotes

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

By indignities men come to dignities.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Reading maketh a full man.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

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.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Opportunity makes a thief.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

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.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.