Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

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

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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

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