If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
Francis BaconIt is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
Francis BaconTo say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
Francis BaconAsk counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Francis BaconSuch philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
Francis BaconFor many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.
Francis Bacon