The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius