Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or number:
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)