What then remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die? — Francis Bacon
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. — Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men. — Francis Bacon