Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Francis BaconIt is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
Francis BaconHabit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly
Francis Bacon