Francis Bacon
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for
delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for
ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can
execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general
counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that
are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth;
