Highland Journeys Quotes

“I anticipate with joy the approaching period when the stigmas of poverty and pride so liberally bestowed on the highlanders by our southern gentry will be as inapplicable to the inhabitants of that country as of any in the island.”
― James Hogg, Highland Journeys

“The fact is, the forest being surrounded by high mountains, remained excluded from any intercourse with the more fertile districts surrounding these: even to this day, the cross roads are in a state of nature. The consequence of all this was, a later and more sudden emergence from barbarism.”
― James Hogg, Highland Journeys