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.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

A corporation has no soul.

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

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Reason is the life of the law.