Studies serve for delight, for ornament¹（装饰，修饰） , 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（处置） of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling（编组的） 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 humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning⁶（修剪） by study; and studies themselves do give forth⁷ directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty⁸ men contemn⁹（蔑视，侮辱） 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（驳斥） ; 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 curiously¹⁰; 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 by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled¹¹（净化的） books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing and 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 head need have much cunning（狡猾的，巧妙的） , to seem to know that he does not. Histories make men wise; poets witty¹²; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic¹³ and rhetoric¹⁴（修辞） able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores¹⁵. Nay¹⁶ there is no stond or impediment（口吃，妨碍） in the wit, but may be wrought¹⁷ out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling¹⁸ is good for the stone and reins¹⁹; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations²⁰, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate²¹ another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.

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