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.
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.
The darkest day in a man’s career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely 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.
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
Ease up, the play is over.
Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
Talent without tact is only half talent.
You may be witty, but not satirical.
Money is more trouble than it is worth.