Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

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

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

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.

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