Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.