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.

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

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 best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.