Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis BaconLibraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
Francis BaconPrinces are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Francis BaconIt is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
Francis Bacon