“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.”
An Essay on Death published in The Remaines of the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam (1648) but may not have been written by Bacon
“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.”
An Essay on Death published in The Remaines of the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam (1648) but may not have been written by Bacon
“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
Of Cunning
Essays (1625)
New Atlantis http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm (1627)
“The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.”
Of Vicissitude of Things
Essays (1625)
“Time, which is the author of authors.”
Book I, iv, 12
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Of The Exaltation of Charity
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
Descriptio Globi Intellectualis (1653, written ca. 1612) Ch. 6, as quoted in "Description of the Intellectual Globe," The Works of Francis Bacon (1889) pp. 517-518, https://books.google.com/books?id=lsILAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA517 Vol. 4, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath.
“States as great engines move slowly.”
Book II
The Advancement of Learning (1605)