ake 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 BRUYERE.

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 BRUYERE.

The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be
watered also himself.--PROVERBS 11:25.

LIBERTY.--The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
--THOMAS JEFFERSON.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.
--COWPER.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior
to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive
of a good life.--BISHOP BUTLER.

Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.--BURKE.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.--AUERBACH.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
--ADDISON.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire
on the floor.--HILLARD.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
--ALFRED DE MUSSET.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they
have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the
liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions,
as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.--COWLEY