The Law ... Is Perfection

One Threatens The Innocent Who Spares The Guilty.

There Must Have Been Good Grounds For Belief In Witchcraft; Otherwise Parliament Would Not Have Legislated Against It.

The House Of Every One Is To Him As His Castle.

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.

A Word Must Become A Friend Or You Will Not Understand It. Perhaps You Do Well To Be Cool And Detached When You Are Seeking Information, But I Remind You Of The Wife Who Complained, 'when I Ask John If He Loves Me, He Thinks I Am Asking For Information'.