Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural...
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.