But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence. Hugh Miller Scottish Scientist More Hugh Miller Quotes 0
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard. Hugh Miller Scottish Scientist More Hugh Miller Quotes 0
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study. Hugh Miller Scottish Scientist More Hugh Miller Quotes 0
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. Hugh Miller Scottish Scientist More Hugh Miller Quotes 0
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. Hugh Miller Scottish Scientist More Hugh Miller Quotes 0
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. Hugh Miller Scottish Scientist More Hugh Miller Quotes 0
They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine. Hugh Miller Scottish Scientist More Hugh Miller Quotes 0