Acorns were good until bread was found. – Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon
Acorns were good until bread was found. – Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. – Francis Bacon
Take particular care of your books…. When you lend a book to any one, make a memorandum of it before it leaves your house, and when it is returned cancel the entry. Every Passover and Tabernacles call in all your books that are out on loan. – Judah Ibn Tibbon, advice to son, quoted by Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the M