Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
Francis BaconPraise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis BaconOne always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
Francis Bacon