Francis Bacon Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

  Francis Bacon

  Sloth, Use, Laziness

  1625 Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

• The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Light, Advice

• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Envy, Affection, Has Beens

• The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Light

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

  Francis Bacon

  Anticipation, Affection, Beneficial

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.495

• He 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

  Wise, Children, Mean

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

• Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Envy, Affection

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.522

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin