" Every good man has his hobby, and every hard-working man
should have one."
Athenaeum.
" Surely, my friends, plenty of bacon is good and indispensable :
but, I doubt, you will never get even bacon by aiming only at that."
Carlyle.
" Thou passest in review before me the whole series of animated
things ; and teachest me to know my brothers in the still wood, in the
air, and in the water."
Hayward's "Faust."
" Once more am I admitted peer
In the Upper House of Nature here,
And feel through all my pulses run
The royal blood of breeze and sun."
J. Russell Lowell.
" When a man has learnt to take an interest in the varied opera-
tions of Nature which are everywhere being carried on about him, and
has acquired the habit of directing his attention to such matters, and
keeping his senses always alive to any new information thereby afforded
him, he has made himself almost independent of outward circumstances.
He has opened to himself a source of occupation and mental enjoyment
but little affected by the ordinary vicissitudes of life."
Rev. Leonard Jenyns.
" What could be the vision of the Saturday stroller ? Perhaps it
might be the old Common, where, amongst furze bushes and mud
puddles, and tall bracken and swamp, he could find, year in and year
out, always something new ; when the time passed so swiftly away that
he could chide the dusky evening for coming on so speedily, and when
enough had been found, or seen, to scud him home with something to
think about all the week ; when the only feeling that could find a place
in his breast was that of increased love for all created things, and when
the only exclamation that could escape his lips was—'How manifold
are Thy works, in wisdom hast Thou made them all.' "
Dr. M. C. Cooke.