More quotes by Francis Bacon

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."