PITHY QUOTES FROM PAST MASTERS

It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind; sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes helping digestion, sometimes increasing appetite, sometimes healing the wounds and exulcerations thereof, and the like. . . .
The Major Works of Francis Bacon. Of the Colours of Good and Evil, "The Advancement of Learning," Book I