to wit

Simile of the week (if not all of April):

“You are a sky-high highbrow,” he wrote. “Me, I suspect highbrows (and low- and middle-) as I do all specialists, suspect them of making things too easy for themselves; and like women with a good figure who can afford to go bra-less, I go about brow-less.”

...the words of Jacques Barzun

...and the chapter title in a book I would like to read (circa 1875, full title: The Intellectual Life):

To a Young Man of Intellectual Tastes, Who, Without Having as Yet Any Particular Lady In View, Had Expressed, In a General Way, His Determination To Get Married