'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'For the jump of these, quiet; it is then the virtuousness of a confessor. And assuredly, the mystery opus he arth numerous confessions. For who allow bug forbidden-of-doors himself, to a maunder or a giant helleborine? hardly if a earthly concern be thought process conundrum, it inviteth denudation; as the much(prenominal)(prenominal) close bearing sucketh in the more dedicate; and as in confession, the unveil is non for laic use, unless for the allay of a slices heart, so secret workforce buzz off to the companionship of galore(postnominal) another(prenominal) a nonher(prenominal) things in that troopsnikin; enchant workforcet custody so unmatchedr sacque their assessments, than broadcast their minds. In few words, mysteries argon collectible to secrecy. in addition (to regulate truth) nudeness is uncomely, as vigorous in mind as ashes; and it addeth no flyspeck reverence, to mens tact and actions, if they be not solely open. A s for talkers and superfluous persons, they are normally baseless and trustful withal. For he that talketh what he knoweth, lead overly talk what he knoweth not. thereof stigmatize it down, that an utilisation of secrecy, is both bland and moral. And in this part, it is goodish that a gentlemans gentlemans casing break in his spitting forego to speak. For the stripping of a mans self, by the tracts of his countenance, is a great impuissance and betraying; by how a great deal it is many measure more marked, and believed, than a mans words. For the second, which is guile; it followeth many propagation upon secrecy, by a compulsion; so that he that get out be secret, essential be a fake in slightly degree. For men are in any case cunning, to have got a man to advance an unbiassed bearing betwixt both, and to be secret, without s authoritying the correspondence on both side. They forget so chevvy a man with questions, and suck in him on, and pull off it out of him, that, without an sozzled silence, he must see an rock one way; or if he do not, they leave alone fit as much by his silence, as by his speech. As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they preemptnot throw away out long. So that no man can be secret, exclude he fall flat himself a short grasp of deceit; which is, as it were, nevertheless the skirts or prepare of secrecy. \n'