Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.' - Quoted from the work of:

Francis Bacon - English Essayist
Quotations
- Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Reading maketh a full man; Conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
- Histories make men wise; poets witty the mathematics, subtle; natural, philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- Wives are young men’s mistress, companies for middle age, and old man’s nurse.
- A crowd is not company and faces are but gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.