“When I begin to think at all I get into states of disgust and fury at the way the mob is going on (meaning by mob, chiefly Dukes, crown princes, and such like persons) that I choke ; and have to go to the British Museum and look at Penguins till I get cool. I find Penguins at present the only comfort in life. One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous; one canât be angry when one looks at a Penguin.”
â Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 November 1860
In honor of World Penguin Day (25 April 2020). After sharing that link with a friend, he replied “I now more fully appreciate your Penguinophilia.”