To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

His locke'  d, letter'd, braw brass-collar, Show'd him the gentleman an'scholar.

-Burns, Robert
  'The Twa Dogs'.

Thisgreat College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt and between.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  Speech on taking up the Chair of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.155^60.

And to this day is every scholar poor; Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.

-Marlowe, Christopher
  Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.477^8.

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.

-Plath, Sylvia
  Letter to her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, 25 Feb. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath (1949).

Sigmund Freud has often stated Dreams and drives are all related. Zip, I am such a scholar!

-Rodgers, Richard and Hart, Lorenz
  'Zip', in PalJoey.

Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind. It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies. This trivial trope reveals a way of truth. Our bloom isgone.We are the fruit thereof.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'Le Monocle de Mon Oncle', pt.8.

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

-Walton, Izaak
  The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.5.