If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

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.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.