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.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.