More was simple, as Bacon was ostentatious.

More was as incorruptible as Bacon was venal.

More spent his private fortune in office, and Bacon spent the wages of corruption there.

Both left office poor in worldly goods; but while More was rich in honor and good deeds, Bacon was poor in everything; poor in the mammon for which he bartered his integrity; poor in the gawd for which he sacrificed his peace; poor in the presence of the worthless; covered with shame in the midst of the people; trusting his fame to posterity, of which posterity is only able to say, that the wisest of men was adviser to the silliest of kings, yet that such a king had a sort of majesty when morally compared with the official director of his conscience.

Both More and Bacon served each a great purpose for the world.