He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
Francis BaconAgain there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
Francis BaconIt is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
Francis Bacon