It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.—Lord Bacon.
He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.—Steele.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.—Bishop Taylor.
Learning is better worth than house or land.—Crabbe.
Liberality.—If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.—Joubert.
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.—Bacon.
Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.—La Bruyère.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.—Proverbs 11:24.
Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving judiciously.—La Bruyère.
The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.—Proverbs 11:25.