More quotes by Francis Bacon

"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."
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider."
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."