Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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.

Ease up, the play is over.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

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.

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