"it is always more comfortable to make less of a great thing than to make less of yourself"

"scholars are not to be trusted when they trim, flatten, or brush aside, for it is always more comfortable to make less of a great thing than to make less of yourself.  Be suspicious whenever a scholar appears to set himself and his learning higher than the thing he is teaching about."

     Anthony Esolen, In the beginning was the Word:  an annotated reading of the Prologue of John (Brooklyn, NY:  Angelico Press, 2021), 38.