Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. 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.

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

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

Common sense is very uncommon.

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

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.