Descrizione:
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.?
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