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 Quote

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
- Hugh Miller Quote

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
- Hugh Miller Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote