More From Francis Bacon
- "Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
- "But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."
- "The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
More In Nature
- "Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."― Alfred North Whitehead
- "I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."― Neil Armstrong
- "When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."― James Whitcomb Riley