One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.