More From Francis Bacon
- "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
- "The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
- "God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
More In Wisdom
- "He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."― Mary Wilson Little
- "If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."― Michael Jordan
- "There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."― Loretta Young