Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. – Francis Bacon
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. – Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. – Francis Bacon
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. – Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon
Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett