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STUDIES serve for delight, for?ornament1, and for ability.? Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in?discourse2; and for ability, is in the?judgment3, and?disposition4?of business.? For expert men can exe-cute, 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?sloth5; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar.? They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give?forth6?directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.??Crafty7?men?contemn8?studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.? Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not?curiously9; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.? Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them bothers; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else?distilled10?books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.? ?Reading make a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.? And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not.? Histories make men wise; poets?witty11; the mathematics?subtitle12; natural philosophy deep; moral