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.

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.