~Statesman.~--The great difference between the real statesman and the
pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards
only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expediency; the
other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.--_Burke._
The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals
composing it.--_J. Stuart Mill._
~Storms.~--When splitting winds make flexible the knees of knotted
oaks.--_Shakespeare._
~Strength.~--Oh! it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is
tyrannous to use it like a giant.--_Shakespeare._
~Study.~--Histories make men wise; poets, 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._