"The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!"
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"There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals."
"The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old."
"Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect."
"The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.""
"Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end."
"He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does."
"I find no intellect comparable to my own"
"The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory."
"Intellect--brain force."
"If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness."