Common sense is very uncommon.

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.

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

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

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

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