Quotes by Scholars

Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Thomas Gray
One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.
Kakuzō Okakura
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think has endowed him with the ability to write.
A.E. Housman
Whenever it is possible a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps
He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.
Erasmus
Virtue is health vice is sickness.
Petrarch
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A.E. Housman
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Saint Isidore of Seville
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Erasmus
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Thomas Gray
Prevention is better than cure.
Erasmus
The gods help those who help themselves.
Marcus Terentius Varro
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Erasmus
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
John Selden
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
Alcuin
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.
George Buchanan
Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown
As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
Thomas Gray
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Bateson
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Thomas Gray
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Erasmus
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Thomas Gray
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
John Selden
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
Alcuin
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.
George Buchanan
Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown
As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
Thomas Gray
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Bateson
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Thomas Gray
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray
Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
A.E. Housman
A fool and his money are soon parted.
George Buchanan
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Erasmus
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Isaac Disraeli
No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)
Erasmus
The loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.
A.E. Housman
And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep Up lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
A.E. Housman
A good man never dies.
Callimachus
Where ignorance is bliss Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Robert Burton