Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis BaconJourneys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
Francis BaconJudges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis BaconI would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.
Francis Bacon