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."
"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."
"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."
"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..."