Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.