Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept
the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful
that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when
they wrote these books.
Hence, instead of Man Thinking we have the bookworm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The American Scholar"
An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge,
August 31, 1837.