Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.