ets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to
contend.--_Bacon._

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better
men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of
idleness, and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of
ignorance, nothing more.--_Bolingbroke._

There is no one study that is not capable of delighting us after a
little application to it.--_Pope._

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can
be got out of them is at best only material: a man must build his house
for himself.--_George MacDonald._

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour
every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is
mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a
twelvemonth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Style.~--The style is the man.--_Buffon._

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge
and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less
praise when the argument doth ask it.--_Ben Jonson._

Not poetry, but prose run mad.--_Pope._

There is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a prince
never frisks it in tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned
periods, but commands in sober natural expressions.--_South._

In the present day our literary masonry is well done, but our
architecture is poor.--_Joubert._

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original,
but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so;
and which effects that for knowledge which the lense effects for the
sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its
force.--_Colton._

A temperate style is alone classical.--_Joubert._

Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity
of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same
wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of
a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning.--_Macaulay._

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the
world.--_Bancroft._

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation.
His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave
reflections.--_Joubert._

~Subordination.~--The usual way that men adopt to appease the wrath of
those whom t