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

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

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

Common sense is very uncommon.

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

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.

The way we do things is to begin.