When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius Category: Scholars, Scholarship
A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell Category: Scholars, Scholarship
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay Category: Scholars, Scholarship
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other. – Richard Savage Category: Anger
Choose your lifes mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Category: Happiness
