~Literature.~--Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages
are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.--_Froude._
The literature of a people must spring from the sense of its
nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and
self-respect is impossible without liberty.--_Mrs. Stowe._
Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain of
the hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently accompanied by
wit, genius, and sense, than by humor.--_Coleridge._
When literature is the sole business of life, it becomes a drudgery.
When we are able to resort to it only at certain hours, it is a charming
relaxation. In my earlier days I was a banker's clerk, obliged to be at
the desk everyday from ten till five o'clock; and I shall never forget
the delight with which, on returning home, I used to read and write
during the evening.--_Rogers._
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom
they love, or to whom they are related.--_Heinrich Heine._
Whatever the skill of any country be in sciences, it is from excellence
in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from
posterity.--_Goldsmith._
~Logic.~--Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one
close, the other at large.--_Bacon._
Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show them
the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved
discourses.--_Locke._