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.

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

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

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

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.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.