Go West, Young Man, Go West And

Fame Is A Vapor, Popularity Is An Accident, Riches Take Wings, Those Who Cheer Today May Curse Tomorrow And Only One Thing Endures - Character.

The Word "rest" Is Not In My Vocabulary.

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.

While The Right Of Suffrage Is Conceded To Thousands Notoriously Ignorant, Vicious, And Drunken, ... A Constitutional Denial To Black Men, As Such, Of Political Rights Freely Secured To White Men, Is Monstrously Unjust And Irrational.

Great Grief Makes Sacred Those Upon Whom Its Hand Is Laid. Joy May Elevate, Ambition Glorify, But Sorrow Alone Can Consecrate.