Francis Bacon

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in read more

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the read more

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

States are great engines moving slowly.

States are great engines moving slowly.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.