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

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

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

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.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

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.