Essays of 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 dis- course; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can exe- cute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and mar- shalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned.