Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

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

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

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

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

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.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.