Character is higher than intellect.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.