Arthur Cotton Museum

Famous quotes containing the words arthur, cotton and/or museum:

“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)