This book is an anthology of quotes from Francis Bacon and selected facts about Francis Bacon. "It is impossible to love and to be wise." "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." "Boldness is a child of ignorance." "Opportunity makes a thief." "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New." "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." "A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison." "A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war." "A lie faces God and shrinks from man."