Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
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 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 BaconPraise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis Bacon