Francis Bacon on Flies

“We see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.”

“It was prettily devised of Æsop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!”

“We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.”