Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACONAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACONIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
FRANCIS BACONRead not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACONBooks must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACONMoney is a great servant but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACONHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACONI will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACONThere is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACONA man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONIt is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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 BACONPhilosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
FRANCIS BACONHistories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONFor friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONWonder is the seed of knowledge.
FRANCIS BACON