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Money is more trouble than it is worth.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

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

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

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.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

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.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

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

The way we do things is to begin.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

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

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

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

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

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

Talent without tact is only half talent.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

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

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Ease up, the play is over.

If you have no family or friends to aid you ... turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.