More illustrated the beauty of holiness; Bacon expounded the infinitude of science.

Bacon became the prophet of intellect; More, the martyr of conscience.

The one pours over our understandings the light of knowledge; but the other inflames our hearts with the love of virtue.
All have read of the proud Egyptian king who ordered a colossal staircase built in his new palace, and was chagrined to find that he required a ladder to climb from one step to the next.

A king's legs are as short as those of a beggar.

So, too, a prince's ability to enjoy the pleasures of life is no greater than that of a pauper.
"All that is valuable in this world is to be had for nothing.