Francis Bacon

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces read more

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree
of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a read more

It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree
of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for new read more

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for
settled business.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.