God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.
Francis BaconThat things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Francis BaconLearning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
Francis Bacon