Collection of Bacon (47)
Of Negotiating
It is generally better to deal by speech, than by letter； and by the mediation of a third, than by a man/'s self. Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer by letter back again； or when it may seem, for a man/'s justification, afterwards to produce his own letter, or where it may be danger to be interrupted, or heard by pieces.
To deal in person is good, when a man/'s face breedelh regard, as commonly with inferiors； or in tender cases, where a man/'s eye, upon the countenance of him with whom he speaketh, may give him a direction, how far to go： and generally, where a man will reserve to himself liberty either to disavow, or to expound. In choice of instruments, it is better to choose men of a plainer sort, that are like to do that,
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