Lydia

“For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.”
― Francis Bacon

“Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”
― Francis Bacon

“There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Francis Bacon

“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale