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

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

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

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

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.