The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

There is no accounting for human beings.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn