As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the roughness of the husk and stone, so are those doctrines best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the scriptures, and are not wrung into controversies and commonplaces.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the...

As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the...

As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the...

As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the...