Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis BaconI've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.
Francis BaconThe desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis BaconThe human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.
Francis Bacon