Quote by Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a

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. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Nature
Read Quote

A bachelors life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Life
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Generosity
category

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. – Barry Duncan

Category:
Generosity

Giving is the business of the rich. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Generosity

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran

Category:
Generosity

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Generosity

Random Quotes

But what I hope for from a book – either one that I write or one that I read – is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I dont want to think of the writer. – Anne Tyler

Category:
Hope

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3. – Kat Dennings

Category:
mom

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Category:
Integrity

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in P.J. Harrebomée, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche t

Category:
Quotations