The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away. As Lord Bacon says (in that play falsely attributed to Shakespeare)—"Ay,… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“Conventions, that all the champions of our sex feel the same way. Well, since I must come to an end somewhere, let… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Revenge, as Lord Bacon tells is, is a kind of wild justice; and the desire for it has had a very poor… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“suppose, that all the historians who treat of England, should agree, that, on the first of January 1600, Queen Elizabeth died; that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
