Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. – Francis Bacon
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. – Francis Bacon
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. – Francis Bacon
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. – Francis Bacon
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. – Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies