More quotes by Francis Bacon

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."