Maxioms by Francis Bacon, Sr.
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Boldness is a child of ignorance
Boldness is a child of ignorance
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that read more
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
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
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to read more
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom