For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle,

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect and emotions were clearly separate; he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the state wherin they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.In short he was twenty-eight and a bachelor.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.