The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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. 
Ease up, the play is over. 
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. 
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character. 
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God. 
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. 
Talent without tact is only half talent. 
A cigar has " ... a fire at one end and a fool at the other." 
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. 
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. 
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected. 
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors. 
You may be witty, but not satirical. 
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. 
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine. 
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets. 
The way we do things is to begin. 
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West 
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless. 
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. 
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. 
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. 
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats. 
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary. 
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. 
He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live. 
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism. 