Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter…

— J. M. W. Turner

L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“She did not move, and now she was the Amazon as well as the schoolmistress. She really was a disconcerting female.”

— Mary Balogh

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed…

— Henry David Thoreau

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more…

— Henry David Thoreau

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even…

— Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency…

— Henry David Thoreau

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates,…

— Henry David Thoreau

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry,…

— Henry David Thoreau

What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable…

— Ted Dekker

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the…

— William Penn

Worthy is the one who remembers to thank the Lord for all His blessings; but admirable is the one who still thank God in…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith