Just as two knives are both sharpened by being rubbed one against the — Scholarship

"Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it."

"A great scholar…is…not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of the resurrection, what else were dust from dead mens bones, into the unity of breathing life."

"We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a meer schollar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should be; the last is a meer bookcase, a bundle of letters, a head stufft with the jargon of languages, a man that understands every body but is understood by no body."

"ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull."

"You would think him a very foolish Fellow, that should not value a Vertuous, or a Wise Man, infinitely before a great Scholar."

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."