This book is an anthology of quotes from Francis Bacon and selected facts about Francis Bacon.
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
“Boldness is a child of ignorance.”
“Opportunity makes a thief.”
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
“A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
“A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.”
“A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.”
“A lie faces God and shrinks from man.”
