Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

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