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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Francis Bacon

Beauty

Infinite

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Francis Bacon

Friendship

By indignities men come to dignities.

Francis Bacon

Men

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Francis Bacon

Children

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon

Fame

Light

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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

Francis Bacon

Death

Man