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)
“Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)