More quotes by Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."
"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."