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

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

"Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship."

"And let a Scholler, all earths volumes carrie, He will be but a walking dictionarie."

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

"We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a meer schollar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentlem…"

"A great scholar…is…not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of …"

"Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bones of great men."

"Just as two knives are both sharpened by being rubbed one against the other, so scholars improve and increase in know…"

"Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossib…"