Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. F
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the...

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon
Men, Judging, Merit
Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.