There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis BaconThe errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Francis BaconThe human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
Francis Bacon