The Race By Vigour, Not By Vaunts,

Index-learning Turns No Student Pale, Yet Holds The Eel Of Science By The Tail. Index-learning Is A Term Used To Mock Pretenders Who Acquire Superficial Knowledge Merely By Consulting Indexes.

I Have More Zeal Than Wit.

A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing; Drink Deep, Or Taste Not The Pierian Spring.

There Still Remains To Mortify A Wit The Many-headed Monster Of The Pit.

Placed On This Isthmus Of A Middle State, A Being Darkly Wise And Rudely Great... He Hangs Between; In Doubt To Act Or Rest; In Doubt To Deem Himself A God, Or Beast; In Doubt His Mind Or Body To Prefer; Born To Die, And Reasoning But To Err.