But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
Francis BaconSince my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.
Francis BaconFriendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
Francis BaconMen suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
Francis Bacon