Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

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

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

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

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.