Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis BaconThe errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Francis BaconFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis BaconThe Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.
Francis Bacon