Quote #7181
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing...
Category Archives: Sir Francis Bacon
Quote #6927
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to...
Quote #6928
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Quote #5804
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either...
Quote #5574
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most...
Quote #5592
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Quote #5234
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Quote #3629
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Quote #3494
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Quote #3165
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.