Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis BaconThe human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
Francis BaconGod never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Francis BaconTo spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Francis BaconSince my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.
Francis Bacon