Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
Francis BaconLet no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
Francis BaconWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconVelazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.
Francis Bacon