In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.