While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.