So much valuable time

"For this reason it is that literary and scientific men, who have been tempted to join our ranks in the hope of opening a new source of intellectual enjoyment, and of receiving an accession of novel ideas for their reflection and delight, so frequently retire, if not with disgust, at least with mixed feelings of sorrow and regret, at the unprofitable sacrifice of so much valuable time which might have been applied to a better purpose."

- Robert Hewitt Brown, Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy