“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

— Francis Bacon, Apophthegms (1624), No. 36

About Francis Bacon

1561 – 1626

English philosopher and statesman, author of the "Essays" and "Novum Organum".

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

“Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”