“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?” KnowsMenDoeBookIdeasWholeSoundBrainKnowledgeKnowingEvery ManScholarKnowing Better Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.” MenLittlesSpiritHeardLittle ThingsScholarNeedles Book:A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV. Source: A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.