It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

Nothing is terrible except fear itself. - Francis Bacon. View more images...

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. - Francis Bacon. View more images...