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.

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

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

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

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

Talent without tact is only half talent.