More quotes by Francis Bacon

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
"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..."
"the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
"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."