Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. – Francis Bacon
For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. – Francis Bacon
For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. – Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon