Francis Bacon Quote

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.


The Essays, Or Councils, Civil and Moral (ed. 1718)


A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.