HomeSearchCollectedAboutSettings
Nobody
@ephemeral

Today's News

What's happening

Who to follow

Gaius Publicola
Gaius Publicola
@GaiusPublicola
Aisha Tennant
Aisha Tennant
@AishaTennant
Rowan Sage
Rowan Sage
@RowanSage__

Quote

Vista
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
1625·London, England

Age appears to be best in four things: old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Read the source→Of Friendship
❧
Locus

London, England

Tempus

More from Francis Bacon

1620

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

1625

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

1605

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Similar Thoughts

Luigi CornaroLuigi Cornaro·1558

Old age, which is dreaded by all men, is to me the sweetest and most pleasant period of my life.

SenecaSeneca·63 AD

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you'll be able to use them better when you're older.

William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth·1807

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now for ever taken from my sight, though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

See all