If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

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

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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