Where There Are Many Counsellors There Is

Certainty Is The Mother Of Quiet And Repose, And Uncertainty The Cause Of Variance And Contentions

The Law Doth Never Enforce A Man To Doe A Vaine Thing.

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.

No Man Can Be A Compleat Lawyer By Universalitie Of Knowledge Without Experience In Particular Cases, Nor By Bare Experience Without Universalitie Of Knowledge; He Must Be Both Speculative & Active, For The Science Of The Laws, I Assure You, Must Joyne Hands With Experience.

Trial By Jury Is A Wise Distribution Of Power Which Exceeds All Other Modes Of Trial.