Who said “Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”?

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.”

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

“People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.”

“A mere scholar, a mere ass.”

“A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.”

“A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

“Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.”

“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”

“A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

“The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”