Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis BaconPrinces are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Francis BaconJourneys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
Francis BaconHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Francis Bacon