Hugh Miller Quotes
"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
(Related: History, Fear, Advice, Canada)
"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
(Related: Music, Deep, Obscurity)
"Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study."
- Hugh Miller
(Related: Life, Nature, School, Study)
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
- Hugh Miller
(Related: Problems)
"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
(Related: Society, Man, Wilderness, World)
"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
(Related: Doubt, Horses, Man)