Francis Bacon

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his read more

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God
by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with
doubts, and are patient in read more

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with
doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.