"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Francis Bacon
Time
A quote by Francis Bacon
From the source
Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.)
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.