Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or number:
“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)