I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.