03.19.07
The Essays: Twenty-Third Post (Gardens)
Bacon lays out his “perfect” garden as obsessively as he did a house before. He also believes that studies will “cure” any type of ailment of the mind. It’s very strange. That essay, “Of Studies”, does have some of my favorite Bacon quotes, though!
“Reading maketh a full man.”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”