When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
Francis BaconThat things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Francis BaconIf there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Francis BaconMan, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Francis BaconJudges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis BaconThe true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.
Francis Bacon