Francis Bacon Quote

That conceit which is elegantly expressed by the emperor Charles the fifth in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."

The Second Book of Francis Bacon of the Proficiency and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human. In: The Works of Francis Bacon (Longmans, 1870), p. 473