A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONA man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONIf money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
FRANCIS BACONI will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACONThe worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
FRANCIS BACONThere are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
FRANCIS BACONFor a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
FRANCIS BACONIf we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
FRANCIS BACONChampagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
FRANCIS BACONMan prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACONReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
FRANCIS BACONSome books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACONBooks must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
FRANCIS BACONIt is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONFor friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACON