Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
Talent without tact is only half talent.
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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.