scholar, n.All

A Scholar is one who will sit up all night worrying over things a fool never dreamed of.

The Scholar is, in the right state, man thinking, just as the planter is man farming.

The Scholar is a man, long on advice but short on action, who thinks he thinks.

A Scholar is like a book written in a dead language: it is not everyone that can read in it.

The Scholar is often a reservoir of learning who has never had a thought.

The Scholar is one for whom every man at some point is his master and every man teaches him something.

The Scholar is the cistern of knowledge, not the fountainhead.

The Scholar is not necessarily a good school master by virtue of being a good scholar.