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

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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