Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

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.

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.