I confess that I was a leader in the movement, page 94 p. 94 because I sincerely believed it to be a sin to “remove old landmarks,” and that the students required more rest and holidays than were allowed them; in which I was absolutely in the right, for our whole life, except Saturday afternoons, was “one demnition grind.”
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

For one who, like Elijah, sets off on his tour among the planets in a chariot of light, drawn by four white horses, there are a hundred who travel on foot, and are obliged to beg their subsistence from door to door.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire