Quotes by Bacon, Francis

Time is the measure of business. >>

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. >>

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sens >>

Quotations about History and Historians

The whole past is the procession of the present. >>

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. >>

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recogni >>

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

Bacon, Francis