Francis Bacon Quotes on Growth
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.