In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. – Francis Bacon
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. – Francis Bacon
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a mans self. – Francis Bacon