Advice Quote by Hugh Miller

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at…

— Hugh Miller

The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend…

— Hugh Miller

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life…

— Hugh Miller

But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where…

— Hugh Miller

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and…

— Hugh Miller

The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the…

— Hugh Miller

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

— Hugh Miller

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

— Hugh Miller

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there…

— Hugh Miller

The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no…

— Hugh Miller

But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand — to…

— Hugh Miller

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants…

— Hugh Miller