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.”
