Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. – Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. – Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. – Francis Bacon
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon