“ The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men. Sir Francis Bacon
“ All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness. Sir Francis Bacon
“ In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior. Sir Francis Bacon
“ The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other. Sir Francis Bacon
“ There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth. Sir Francis Bacon
“ He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief. Sir Francis Bacon
“ Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend. Sir Francis Bacon
