Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Francis BaconAge 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.
Francis BaconAll authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
Francis BaconThe dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
Francis Bacon