We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
Samuel JohnsonPersius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.
Samuel Johnson